Learn More About Plastic

Consumption

The EPA estimates 500 billion - one trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year. A typical school/work lunch contains 3-4 plastic sandwich bags each day amounting to upwards of 1,000 each year for one person. These bags will all be around long after we are gone!

Impact

Plastic bags make up over 10% of debris found on US Coastlines.

Every plastic bag we use will be around for centuries, long after our children outgrow their lunchboxes.

Each plastic bag takes over 1,000 years to break down. Plastic bags do not biodegrade, they photodegrade whereby over time they breakdown into smaller, more toxic petropolymers.

Less than 1% of plastic bags are recycled. It costs more to recycle a plastic bag than to produce a new one.

Solution

By taxing plastic bags with a “plastax” many countries and some US cities are reducing consumption. Ireland has decreased their reliance on plastic bags by 90% after imposing these new taxes!

Purchasing alternatives to plastic bags. Each ReUsies™ has the potential to eliminate hundreds of plastic bags.